San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-08-19
EDITORIAL BREVITIES.

The Union Labor party of New York
is one thing, the United Labor party is
another. Like the Jews and the
Samsritans Of Scripture, these have no
dealings the one with the other.
THE handwriting on the wall grows
more and more plain and the speedy
downfall of the Salisbury government
grows assured. To few men does there
ever come such vindication as seems to
await Gladstone.
THAT this country is not governed
wisely, but too much, Is quite apparent
to the meanest comprehension. 1t is
not for more law that this country SUI
fers but for q wiser and truer apprecia-
ton of the principles OF government.
THOSE who glory over the ability Of
Mrs. Cleveland to carry Massachusetts
forget that the republicans hold the
state and supervise the ballot box.
Tickets with Francis name upon them
won't count.
The condition Of things In the vicinity
OF Meeker seem as hard to determine rs
the condition Of things in the jnngles of
far away Africa. The conflicting state
ments in both cases afford ample ground
for the imaginative work OF the truthful
newspaper chronicler
The anti-prohibitiOnists OF Texas
have no claim upon the republicans OF
the state in adjusting their own home
differences. When iJ comes to q fight
within party lines the republicans can
be depended upon to keep aloof and cry
with the old Scott Lay on Macduff."
The studied insults OF the prohibi-
tionist Journals in persistently refusing
to class Germans with the white" vOt-
ers OF the state should be remembered.
These journals are democratic, every
last one of them, and the insults should
be recorded against them.
FORT WORTH blows and straddles the
fence. and Waco purrs sweetly for the
Alliances. but Dallas sets serenely on
her throne and TO her all north and east
and central Texas come and lovingly
pay tribute. Dallas is the commercial
center OF all north Texas, and to her
shall the gathering of the peOple'be.
The anti and pro organs OF the demo-
cratic persasiOn In Texas are busy smoth-
eTing the fires of the late strife by heap.
ing Goals OF fire on each others heads. At
the present rate OF reconciliation the
nun llOl hllu NAG DlO lhlllD W Ill llb uOWl
together about next millennium, and the
lamb, it may be fairly presumed, will be
inside the lion.
THERE are not wanting indications that
the country has already had a surfeit of
democracy and reform as expOunded by
the CleYelandites. If the republicans
really determine to administer this gov
eminent hereafter, ii will be a clear case
of CrOGkett's coon With the democratic
rooster.
THE financiers of the jubilee era have
grown grave over the reflection that the
suspicious event did nothing 10 unloose
the purse strings Of her most gracious
and penurious majesty. She seems
lineal descendant of the hOrse-leeche's
daughter and her cry Of give! give! In-
cessantly uttered for half century still
drones out its everlasting monotone.
The Sunday law of Texas is used as a
mere plaything by rival municipalities.
When one strives for Its enforcement,
another makes a parade Of its disregard,
and so draws Sunday pleasure seekers to
its haunts. Some Sunday restrictions
would be beneficial, and, IL reasonable,
could be enforced. The present Sunday
laws cannot be enforced, because they
are not in line with prevailing public
opinion.
The Fort Worth Gazette writhIng un-
der the possibilities Of the next state
convention, wriggles hole for itself out
OF the hObble by remarking: "lf Cana
dian cruisers are sinking our fishing
boats and Mexicans secretly sssassinat-
ing our citizens, we will have something
else 10 think Of besides discussing poll
teal platforms" True, the Gazatte
stripe Of politicians will be thinking
how quickly these things come to q per-
petual end under q government repub-
licanly administered.
The benefits of free trade on sugar
brought in by the Hawaiian reciprocity
treaty are coming to the surface, but are
hardly appreciated in the sugar growing
districts. The Pacific coast has been
supplied, the central basin Of the great
middleLegiOn has been supplied from
the Pacific SOsst by rail, and now the
product reaches New York via the Cape
and drives out Cuban sugars and seri-
Ously interferes with our own cane
growers. Why this concession to the
lslanders2 What do we gain in return.